When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, an...
DENIS JOHNSON As soon as the first drop of dawn dilutes the blackness, the neighbors begin their unbelievable rack...
DENIS JOHNSON Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one an...
DENIS JOHNSON I was afraid to make love to her without the conversations and laughter from the false universe play...
DENIS JOHNSON When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew ...
DENIS JOHNSON The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In orde...
DENIS JOHNSON We live in the post-trash, man. It'll be a real short eon. Down in the ectoplasmic circuitry where h...
DENIS JOHNSON There's so much goop inside of us, man," he said, "and it all just wants to get out.
DENIS JOHNSON Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fo...
DENIS JOHNSON I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later ...
DENIS JOHNSON How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply,...
DENIS JOHNSON [The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing n...
DENIS JOHNSON There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this pl...
DENIS JOHNSON The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached....
DENIS JOHNSON We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after some...
DENIS JOHNSON And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.
DENIS JOHNSON Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what ...
DENIS JOHNSON With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.
DENIS JOHNSON All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never ...
DENIS JOHNSON Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.
DENIS JOHNSON And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean t...
DENIS JOHNSON She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her...
DENIS JOHNSON Talk into here. Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.
DENIS JOHNSON The Vine had no jukebox, but a real stereo continually playing tunes of alcoholic self-pity and sent...
DENIS JOHNSON Or maybe that wasn't the time it snowed. Maybe it was the time we slept in the truck and I rolled ov...
DENIS JOHNSON He was completely and openly a mess. Meanwhile the rest of us go on trying to fool each other.
DENIS JOHNSON People entering the bars on First Avenue gave up their bodies. Then only the demons inhabiting us co...
DENIS JOHNSON And yet we were always being found innocent for ridiculous reasons.
DENIS JOHNSON Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder aro...
DENIS JOHNSON Does everything you touch turn to shit? Does this happen to you every time?"

"No wonder t...
DENIS JOHNSON That world! These days it's all been erased and they've rolled it up like a scroll and put it away s...
DENIS JOHNSON . . . things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them.
DENIS JOHNSON There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed i...
DENIS DIDEROT You have to make it happen.
DENIS DIDEROT Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We r...
DENIS DIDEROT The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of indep...
DENIS WAITLEY Free speech is a valuable commodity, which we preserve and protect, but there quite rightly is restr...
DENIS NAPTHINE Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Na...
DENIS LEARY I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.
DENIS LEARY Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke h...
DENIS LEARY I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.
CLAIRE DENIS They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and publi...
DENIS KEARNEY There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on ...
DENIS KEARNEY The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthw...
DENIS WAITLEY Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
DENIS WAITLEY For us as writers, it's really important to have songs we believe in - even before sometimes we ...
DENIS LEARY Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving for...
DENIS WAITLEY Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out th...
DENIS WAITLEY Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
DENIS WAITLEY You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
DENIS WAITLEY I was a fan of 'Six Feet Under' and was very sad when it ended, so I was not ready to switch...
DENIS O'HARE I was a big fan of 'Six Feet Under.' So, I got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes on ...
DENIS O'HARE I was raised with James Bond. I love James Bond movies. I would love to do a James Bond movie one da...
DENIS VILLENEUVE All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and idea...
DENIS WAITLEY You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
DENIS WAITLEY Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
DENIS WAITLEY It's not what you are that holds you back, It's what you think
DENIS WAITLEY I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a c...
DENIS LEARY That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend yo...
DENIS WAITLEY Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then yo...
DENIS LEARY Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
DENIS WAITLEY Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy ...
DENIS WAITLEY Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
DENIS WAITLEY you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.
DENIS WAITLEY I'm coming from a small town in Quebec where, at that time, there was no Internet, and the way t...
DENIS VILLENEUVE I'm among the hardcore fans of 'Blade Runner.' 'Blade Runner' is one of my favor...
DENIS VILLENEUVE '2001: A Space Odyssey' is a movie that really impressed me as a teenager. And also 'Bla...
DENIS VILLENEUVE I've been dreaming to do sci-fi since I was 10 years old, and I said 'no' to a lot of se...
DENIS VILLENEUVE Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you...
DENIS WAITLEY There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
DENIS WAITLEY Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from...
DENIS WAITLEY His hands would plait the priests guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
DENIS DIDEROT Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
DENIS WAITLEY Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual exper...
DENIS WAITLEY You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
DENIS WAITLEY If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief...
DENIS WAITLEY You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.
DENIS WAITLEY Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called ex...
DENIS WAITLEY From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
DENIS DIDEROT Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success ...
DENIS WAITLEY Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and min...
DENIS WAITLEY There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized soci...
DENIS DIDEROT To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
DENIS WAITLEY Good music is very close to primitive language.
DENIS DIDEROT Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian ...
DENIS DIDEROT In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its i...
DENIS DIDEROT Chase your passion, not your pension.
DENIS WAITLEY To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the z...
DENIS DIDEROT Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each sm...
DENIS WAITLEY The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At ...
DENIS DONOGHUE The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosopher...
DENIS DIDEROT Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the fut...
DENIS WAITLEY Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
DENIS WAITLEY You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
DENIS WAITLEY A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star...
DENIS WAITLEY Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
DENIS DIDEROT The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority ...
DENIS DIDEROT The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have com...
DENIS DIDEROT Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
DENIS DIDEROT I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
DENIS DIDEROT Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
DENIS WAITLEY No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most sa...
DENIS WAITLEY Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out the...
DENIS WAITLEY You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
DENIS WAITLEY The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
DENIS DIDEROT Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.
DENIS WAITLEY There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibil...
DENIS WAITLEY The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life,...
DENIS BREEZE Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
DENIS DIDEROT Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
DENIS WAITLEY When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to con...
DENIS WAITLEY It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product...
DENIS DIDEROT The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it w...
DENIS DIDEROT Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
DENIS WAITLEY Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What ...
DENIS WAITLEY Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspect...
DENIS WAITLEY Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been ...
DENIS WAITLEY Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view fro...
DENIS WAITLEY Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make an...
DENIS WAITLEY The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
DENIS WAITLEY Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordi...
DENIS DIDEROT No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, a...
DENIS DIDEROT There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, refle...
DENIS DIDEROT Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
DENIS DIDEROT We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are stru...
DENIS DIDEROT The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
DENIS DIDEROT All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
DENIS DIDEROT Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
DENIS DIDEROT There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
DENIS DIDEROT Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always mea...
DENIS DIDEROT The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerou...
DENIS DIDEROT The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed ...
DENIS DIDEROT The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
DENIS DIDEROT The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties...
DENIS DIDEROT Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone...
DENIS DIDEROT The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this...
DENIS DIDEROT We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter ...
DENIS DIDEROT The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society ...
DENIS DIDEROT Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learnin...
DENIS WAITLEY In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as fa...
DENIS DIDEROT Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
DENIS DIDEROT Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in th...
DENIS DIDEROT Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
DENIS WAITLEY Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the ...
DENIS WAITLEY Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can u...
DENIS DIDEROT Winners are people with definite purpose in life.
DENIS WAITLEY Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
DENIS DIDEROT You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
DENIS WAITLEY Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that ...
DENIS DIDEROT A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
DENIS WAITLEY The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
DENIS HEALEY Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view f...
DENIS WAITLEY There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
DENIS DIDEROT All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's...
DENIS DIDEROT The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously con...
DENIS WATLEY Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
DENIS DIDEROT We're underscoring to everybody the promise at the heart of the Affordable Care Act, which is qu...
DENIS MCDONOUGH The idea, as a director, is to be able to bring everybody on board and to inspire and give energy to...
DENIS VILLENEUVE There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and exp...
DENIS DIDEROT Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who comm...
DENIS DIDEROT It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
DENIS DIDEROT When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can...
DENIS DIDEROT The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
DENIS DIDEROT Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.
DENIS VILLENEUVE When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are o...
DENIS DIDEROT Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary d...
DENIS WAITLEY I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy...
DENIS LEARY The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the fine...
DENIS WAITLEY It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of i...
DENIS NORDEN I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholi...
DENIS MCDONOUGH Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, a...
DENIS WAITLEY The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand,...
DENIS WAITLEY Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving...
DENIS WAITLEY To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and...
DENIS WAITLEY It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
DENIS WAITLEY Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time o...
DENIS WAITLEY I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
DENIS WAITLEY No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
DENIS DIDEROT They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled gr...
DENIS KEARNEY In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust a...
CLAIRE DENIS As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We ca...
DENIS WAITLEY Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
DENIS DIDEROT Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
DENIS LEARY Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving...
DENIS LEARY Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experie...
DENIS WAITLEY I'd love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and...
DENIS LEARY I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use ma...
DENIS LEARY George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, mo...
DENIS LEARY The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny ...
DENIS LEARY I bought my daughter a Chihuahua and I fell in love with it. So now I carry Coco around with me all ...
DENIS LEARY What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour... I'm not in...
CLAIRE DENIS We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
DENIS DIDEROT The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
DENIS HEALEY No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my...
DENIS LEARY Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their...
DENIS WAITLEY Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have b...
DENIS WAITLEY We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor...
DENIS KEARNEY I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I wou...
DENIS O'HARE Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that ...
DENIS DIDEROT The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is al...
DENIS WAITLEY